Burundi presidential election, 1993

Burundi?s first multiparty presidential election since independence in 1962 was held on 1 June 1993. The poll ended 27 years of alternating military and single party rule in the country. This period was marked by sporadic, but deadly violence between the ethnic Tutsi minority (which controlled the government and army) and the Hutu majority.

Election Day and Results

Voting proceeded peacefully without major incidents on 1 June 1993. Voter turnout was a massive 97.3% (Out of 2,355,126 registered voters, a total of 2,291,746 voted). Final results showed Ndadaye winning 65% of the vote, followed by Buyoya with 32% and Sendegeya finishing a distant third with 1%. The results confounded forecasts that expected Pierre Buyoya to win with a similar majority.

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None of the three candidates contested the results and international election observers declared the poll free, fair, and transparent.

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